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Operating Systems Linux Compress files >2GB Post 302303776 by xavix on Friday 3rd of April 2009 12:06:37 PM
Old 04-03-2009
It worked!

Now I move the files as:
Code:
find $ORIG -type f -mtime +30 -print | xargs tar cvjf $DEST/$TARFILE | rm

Thanks!
 

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